Occurrence of a Lotic Breeding Hynobius Salamander (Amphibia, Urodela) on Kamishima of the Amakusa Islands, Japan

Current Herpetology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-8

  Nishikawa, Kanto ^a   Matsui, Masafumi ^a   Tanabe, Shingo ^b   Sakamoto, Mariko ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kumamoto University ^*  (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Hynobiidae; Hynobius; Lotic breeding; the Amakusa Islands

Indexed keywords

EID: 31344459161     PISSN: 13455834     EISSN: 18811019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5358/hsj.22.1     Document Type: Article

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